After signing with the label, Bemis began writing songs for his band's Doghouse debut. With tremendous self-created pressure, he threw himself into pushing the sonic boundaries of the band and maturing their sound, incorporating elements of math-rock, indie-pop and theatrical pomp. He and Linder also started the search for a producer. The two met several producers but eventually decided on Tim O'Heir and Stephen Trask. Bemis struggled with different ideas for the record and decided the album should focus on "the artistic struggle, the fact that every creative person has this sick ambition to affect some sort of change in society with their art, to be more than just a guy in a band or a poet or a sculptor." According to the album's liner notes, ...Is a Real Boy was originally intended to be a rock opera, complete with a full narrative, cast of characters and spoken word interludes between each song. One tentative title for the album was Zona! Zona![5] However, Bemis became overwhelmed by the entire process of writing and playing most of the instruments and had a breakdown.[6]

"I literally lost my mind while we were recording," stated Bemis regarding the breakdown. The breakdown was precipitated by a mockumentary discussed by Bemis and O'Heir. Bemis' condition led him to believe he was being secretly filmed for the mockumentary; the situation culminated in him walking the streets of Brooklyn thinking he was being filmed while encountering friends (who were actually strangers).[7] After recovering, Bemis decided to focus solely on the music and dropped the idea of a script.[8] Around July 2003, the band began recording ...Is a Real Boy, their first album with Doghouse Records. Bemis said the two people he wanted to "outdo with ...Is a Real Boy were Andy Warhol and Jesus."[7] In addition to working with O'Heir and Trask, Say Anything worked with Forrest Kline (of power pop band Hellogoodbye) to record the For Sale... EP, released in 2004.[9] The band also worked with ECA Records to record a promotional album that was never released.[6]

"Alive with the Glory of Love" and "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" were the album's singles, released on September 11, 2006[13] and January 30, 2007,[14] respectively. Several songs from ...Is a Real Boy and their corresponding demos—including "Belt," "Every Man Has a Molly," "Spidersong," and "Alive with the Glory of Love"—have been released on compilations.

A promotional 7" vinyl to be released via ECA Records (originally on July 15, 2003) and a split EP were planned.[5] However, the promotional vinyl and split were never released, although both tracks from the vinyl, an acoustic version of "Belt" (complete with alternate lyrics and a tirade about indie labels by Bemis at the end of the song) along with "You Help Them" (from Menorah/Majora) can be downloaded from Anything's online forum.[15]

"Alive with the Glory of Love" was released to radio on June 20, 2006.[16] In October and November 2006, the band went on tour with MewithoutYou and Piebald.[17] "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" was released to radio on January 30, 2007.[16]

During the initial release of the album, ...Is a Real Boy managed to sell 20,000 copies independently, attracting major label attention.[1] J Records, then owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment and distributed by the RCA Music Group signed the band and reissued the album on February 28, 2006. The bonus disc included with the reissue, ...Was a Real Boy, features seven tracks that were originally from an eight-track EP known unofficially as the Say Anything vs. AIDS demos. As noted in the reissue's liner notes, the EP, which was recorded in Kevin Seaton's garage, was scrapped by Bemis as he did not feel the band was popular enough to sufficiently support such a cause.

A second reissue came in the form of a "double gatefold 12-inch LP" released by Doghouse Records on October 23, 2007, which included all tracks from the original reissue plus an extra track, "Walk Through Hell," originally from the Menorah/Majora EP. This release included a green record and a black record. Only 1,000 copies of the album were printed.

[18][19] Doghouse Records released the third re-issue of the album on October 7, 2008. Like the previous release, the version was on vinyl only and was limited to 1,000 copies.[18]

A fourth re-issue was made available for pre-order on February 22, 2012 through Doghouse Records in the form of a "gatefold double LP on opaque white and olive green splattered vinyl." Only 250 copies were made for preorder, 10 of them coming with the test pressings used in production of the LP. Both versions were sold out within two hours of being made available for preorder.

...Is a Real Boy has received almost universally positive reviews from music critics. AbsolutePunk.net reviewer Jason Tate awarded the album a 99% rating and praised the band's writing, saying "By the second song it is perceptible that the band has a grasp on crafting songs that do not follow a formula, or insult the listener by maintaining a hold on one particular style or sound."[20]Allmusic's Corey Apar also gave the album a glowing review, writing "...Is a Real Boy comes off as an impressively well-done, multifaceted effort that deserves multiple spins and makes Say Anything truly a band to watch."[3]Punk News noted that the album seems to be commenting in the over-use of irony in the emoscene, writing "Yes, this album is highly ironic in that it's critical of the scene it's categorized in and it's an album about a band and there are songs in here that are about songs. But, Bemis's overall quirkiness makes it work."[22]Entertainment Weekly wrote that, "Say Anything, an emo act based in L.A., has a new disc that proves that the genre can be artful and intriguing."[1]BuzzFeed included the album at number 19 on their "36 Pop Punk Albums You Need To Hear Before You F——ing Die" list.[25]

...Is A Real Boy has four vinyl pressings, the first being released October 23, 2007. The second pressing was released October 7, 2008 and a third pressing in 2008. The fourth pressing was released May 29, 2012.

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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves

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Say Anything (band)
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Say Anything is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 2000 by Max Bemis and his friends, in 2003, the band signed with their first label, Doghouse Records. A year later, they released. Is a Real Boy, Say Anything signed with J Records in 2005 and, following Bemis successful rehabilitation, re-released. Is a Real Boy on J Records. They went on co-headlining tours with Saves the Day in 2006, on October 23,2007, the band released their third full-length album, In Defense of the Genre. In 2008, Say Anything went on a tour across the US and UK. Their fourth album, entitled Say Anything, was released on November 3,2009, the band was formed in 2000 by Max Bemis and four of his friends as Sayanything. Within two years, they self-released two EPs, Junior Varsity and In Your Dreams, and the full-length Baseball, An Album by Sayanything, sometime around 2002, Sayanything added a space to their name to become Say Anything. In late 2002, Bemis and Linder recorded the Menorah/Majora EP, by this point, Say Anythings releases had generated a major bidding war. Drive-Thru Records pursued the band and called Max Bemis the next Bob Dylan, brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records recorded A Boston Peace, one of the dorm-room demos, with the band. In early 2003, Say Anything signed with Doghouse Records stating sarcastically that Doghouse put out such obscure, after signing with the label, Bemis began writing songs for his bands Doghouse debut. With tremendous self-created pressure, he threw himself into pushing the boundaries of the band and maturing their sound, incorporating elements of math-rock, indie-pop. He and Linder also started the search for a producer, the two met several producers but eventually decided on Tim OHeir and Stephen Trask. Bemis originally intended the album to be an opera with a full script, narration. However, Bemis became overwhelmed by the process of writing and playing most of the instruments and had a breakdown. I literally lost my mind while we were recording, stated Bemis regarding the breakdown, the breakdown was precipitated by a mockumentary discussed by Bemis and OHeir. After recovering, Bemis decided to focus solely on the music, around July 2003, the band began recording. Is a Real Boy, their first album with Doghouse Records. Bemis said the two people he wanted to outdo with. Is a Real Boy were Andy Warhol and Jesus, in addition to working with OHeir and Trask, Say Anything worked with Forrest Kline to record the For Sale. The band also worked with ECA Records to record an album that was never released. Is a Real Boy was released August 3,2004

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Emo
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Emo /ˈiːmoʊ/ is a loosely categorized music genre characterized by expressive, often confessional, lyrics. By the mid-1990s, numerous emo acts formed in the Midwestern and Central United States, meanwhile, a more aggressive style of emo, screamo, had also emerged. Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the success of Jimmy Eat World. In the wake of success, many emo bands were signed to major record labels. By the early 2010s, the popularity of emo began to decrease, some bands moved away from their emo roots and some bands disbanded. An underground emo revival emerged in the 2010s, with drawing on the sounds and aesthetics of emo of the 1990s. The term emo has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including acts and groups with disparate styles. In addition to music, emo is often used more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of fashion, culture, and behavior. Emo has been associated with a stereotype that includes being particularly emotional, sensitive, misanthropic, shy, introverted and it has also been associated with stereotypes like depression, self-harm, and suicide. While emo originated in hardcore punk and has considered a subgenre of post-hardcore, it has also been associated with indie rock. The fusion of emo with pop punk is known as emo pop. The New York Times described as emo as emotional punk or post-hardcore or pop-punk and that is, punk that wears its heart on its sleeve and tries a little tenderness to leaven its sonic attack. If it helps, imagine Ricky Nelson singing in the Sex Pistols, author Matt Diehl described emo as a more sensitive interpolation of punks mission. The 1966 album Pet Sounds by the American rock band the Beach Boys has been characterized as the first emo album by Treblezines Ernest Simpson, in some ways, one could find trace elements of in early emo albums of the 2000s. In the 1980s, the Washington, D. C. hardcore scene swelled in size with the formation of many hardcore punk, post-hardcore itself is a more melodic and experimental offshoot of hardcore inspired by post-punk. Hardcore bands that were influential on many early emo bands include Minor Threat, The Faith, Black Flag, Emo originated as an outgrowth of the hardcore punk scene of early 1980s Washington, D. C. Minor Threat fan Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcores self-imposed boundaries in favor of guitars, varied rhythms. Many of the themes would become familiar tropes in later generations of emo music, including nostalgia, romantic bitterness

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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr

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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret

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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Max Bemis
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Maxim Max Bemis is the lead singer, primary composer and primary lyricist of the band Say Anything. He also sings alongside Chris Conley in the supergroup Two Tongues, Bemis was born in New York City in 1984. His family moved to Hollywood, California when he was a child, Bemis took piano lessons which he credits for the realization that he wanted to make music. In addition, Bemis was raised in a strong Jewish environment and his maternal grandparents were survivors of the Holocaust, which was the inspiration for the song, Alive With the Glory of Love. Bemis attended high school at Windward School, a school in Los Angeles. He had also attended Camp Ramah in Ojai, California, where he met future band-mate Coby Linder, in 2000, Bemis, Linder, and friends from Windward and Beverly Hills High School formed Say Anything. The band was described as a school band, but they released a full-length LP. In 2002, Bemis attended Sarah Lawrence College, however, he spent much of his time recording his own music and left the school after only a few months. Bemis has mentioned Tom Delonge of Blink 182 as an influence from a young age. Bemis is the singer, guitarist and primary lyricist of Say Anything as well as a founding member of the band. After the resignation of the band members, he is the only original member remaining. In 2000, Say Anything released Junior Varsity, the band released its debut full-length album, Baseball, in 2001. Despite attending Sarah Lawrence College for a time, Bemis kept the band alive, performing much if not all of the music that went into Menorah/Majora. Say Anything released. Is a Real Boy in 2004, Bemis performed the vocals, guitar, bass, and keyboard parts for the album. After the albums release, the band went through a period lasting over a year due to Bemiss mental health. The band canceled at least two tours and lost several members, by 2007 however, after going through rehab, Say Anything and Bemis got back on track with co-headlining tours with Saves the Day and Hellogoodbye. In 2007, the band released In Defense of the Genre, on which Bemis sang lead vocals and played guitar, Say Anythings self-titled album was released November 3,2009. On November 5,2010 at The Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey, the album, called Anarchy, My Dear, was released March 13,2012, which was followed up with their headlining spring tour

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In Defense of the Genre
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In Defense of The Genre is the third full-length studio album by American pop-punk band Say Anything. The album artwork was provided by Jeff Smith, an artist primarily known for his work on the Bone comic series. Writing and plans for In Defense of the Genre began in March 2006 during Say Anythings extensive touring and promotion for the reissue of their previous effort, …Is a Real Boy. The band started rehearsing and piecing together the album through pre-production the next year in January 2007, Max Bemis described in an interview that the record is more focused on observations of other people, unlike. Is a Real Boys lyrical content revolving solely on Bemis and his problems. The record picks up in my life where left off because it is very autobiographical, musically, its different, more mature and somewhat more cohesive and poppy, but darker in a whole different way. Additional instrumentation was handled by DJ Swamp and Casey Prestwood, whom contributed on turntable and pedal steel guitar, the December issue of Alternative Press reported that Jesse Lacey of Brand New chose not to collaborate. In December 2007, Absolutepunk. net did a 3-part video series showing an in depth look at the recording of In Defense of the Genre, on September 19,2007, fans could pre-order an autographed copy of the album with an optional Say Anything T-shirt. An extra booklet was packaged with the CDs, autographed by Bemis, Alex Kent, on October 8, People Like You Are Why People Like Me Exist was posted on the groups PureVolume profile. Two days later, Spores was posted on the bands Myspace page, in Defense of the Genre was released on October 23 through J Records as a double disc album. In October and November, the group co-headlined the Myspace Music Tour with Hellogoodbye and they were supported by Polysics and Young Love. Baby Girl, Im a Blur was released to radio on November 6, in Defense of the Genre was well received by most critics, averaging a 79% on Metacritic. Entertainment Weekly gave the album an A-, noting that the albums sonic twists almost always work, Alternative Press gave the album a 4. 5/5 and stated that Max Bemis created an album musicians more than twice his age could only hope to create. Blender, in a 4/5 review, called it a mess, in more mixed reviews, PopMatters noted that the wide variety of styles was a gift and curse at the same time. Rolling Stone said When Bemis is on and his songs are tuneful and invigorating. It debuted at number 27 on the U. S. Billboard 200 chart, all lyrics written by Max Bemis, all music composed by Max Bemis, Coby Linder and Alex Kent

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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

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Alive with the Glory of Love
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Alive with the Glory of Love is the first single from Say Anythings second album. Is a Real Boy. Alive with the Glory of Love was released to radio on June 20,2006, the song was a hit for the band, charting at number twenty-eight on the Alternative Songs chart. The song documents the love between two individuals as they live their lives in the ghetto, in hiding, and in the work camp. In an interview, Bemis said, I thought about what it would be like to be in love and be separated from the person you love, Anything can happen, in a war and terrorist attacks and cynicism and all these actors who oppose love. The music video goes between shots of the playing in front of a tree and a preteen boy who is sleeping in what we are to believe is a camp. During the night the boy wakes up fully dressed, and equipped with a flashlight sneaks out of his bunk, at the same time, a girl in another bunk also awakes and steals off into the night. Running out of the camp he descends a flight of stairs while his female companion sneaks out of her cabin, all the lights are turned on throughout the camp including large spotlights on towers illuminating the scene while the guards spread out with flashlights. Both continue to run through the woods separated from each other while the guards follow until they reach a large chain link, upon reaching the fence and realizing their situation, they kiss while lights from the other side of the fence illuminate the scene. Escaping through a gap they come upon the playing to a small crowd. As the guards continue to search now accompanied by German Shepherds both the boy and girl easily blend in with the rest of the crowd. As the band continues to play they crowd surf and when the arrive they find a closed gate with no trace of either the children or the band. The music video has a lot of Holocaust imagery in it, including the bed checks, the video along with the lyrics ultimately suggest the deeper meaning of this song, which is based on lead singer Max Bemiss grandparents survival of the holocaust. The female guard that blows the whistle is the actress Carina Rhea, the song was featured on the Scrubs season 6 finale episode, My Point of No Return, and was also featured in the season 7 premiere, My Own Worst Enemy. The single features on a recent Kerrang CD entitled Kerrang, under The Influence, The Songs That Inspired My Chemical Romance as a tribute to Say Anything and to their songs. Alive with the Glory of Love is also featured in the professional snowboarder Marco Smollas section on the DVD Prediculous

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Mockumentary
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A mockumentary or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting. While not always comedic, comedic mockumentaries are common, a dramatic mockumentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Mockumentaries are often presented as documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film footage became relatively easy to locate, a very early example was a short piece on the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest that appeared as an April fools joke on the British television program Panorama in 1957. The term mockumentary, which originated in the 1960s, was popularized in the mid-1980s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film. Mockumentaries are often partly or wholly improvised, as a style of acting helps to maintain the pretense of reality. Comedic mockumentaries rarely have laugh tracks, also to sustain the atmosphere, albert Brooks was also an early popularizer of the mockumentary style with his film Real Life,1979, a spoof of a PBS documentary. Woody Allens Take the Money and Run is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a criminal, Virgil Starkwell. Jackson Beck, who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, fictional interviews are interspliced throughout, especially those of Starkwells parents who wear Groucho Marx noses and mustaches. The style of film was widely appropriated by others and revisited by Allen himself in films such as Zelig and Sweet. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the format has enjoyed considerable attention. In 1984, Christopher Guest co-wrote and starred in the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, films such as Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, all written with costar Eugene Levy, were critical successes. Man Bites Dog is a 1992 Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary written, produced, and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, in 1995, directed by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes, Forgotten Silver claimed New Zealand director Colin McKenzie to be a pioneer in filmmaking. When the film was revealed to be a mockumentary, Jackson received criticism for tricking viewers. In 1999, Drop Dead Gorgeous by Michael Patrick Jann used the style to narrate a fictional small-town beauty pageant as a way to satirize Middle America. Dark Side of the Moon is a 2002 French mockumentary by director William Karel, the premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. FUBAR is a 2002 Canadian mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, the Confederate States of America is a 2004 mockumentary presenting an alternative history in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War

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Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in galleries in the late 1950s. He promoted a collection of known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression 15 minutes of fame. In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the rock band The Velvet Underground. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism and he is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. Warhol has been the subject of retrospective exhibitions, books. The Andy Warhol Museum in his city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art. Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable, the highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash, his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. A2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the bellwether of the art market, Warhol was born on August 6,1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the child of Ondrej Warhola and Julia, whose first child was born in their homeland. His parents were working-class Lemko emigrants from Mikó, located in todays northeastern Slovakia, Warhols father emigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhols grandparents. Warhols father worked in a coal mine, the family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church, Andy Warhol had two older brothers—Pavol, the oldest, was born before the family emigrated, Ján was born in Pittsburgh. Pavols son, James Warhola, became a childrens book illustrator. He became a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors, often bedridden as a child, he became an outcast at school and bonded with his mother. At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio, Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences. When Warhol was 13, his father died in an accident, as a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945

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Forrest Kline
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Forrest Scott Kline is an American musician, songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist. He is a member of the pop band Hellogoodbye. As part of Hellogoodbye won the MTV2 Dew Circuit Breakout contest, Kline produced and recorded Never Shout Nevers The Summer EP. In 2010 he wrote or cowrote the songs as well as produced Hellogoodbyes second LP Would It Kill You, on June 25,2010 Kline married his girlfriend of six years, Chelsea, with whom he lives in Long Beach, California. Kline is vegan and supports the rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ^ Forrest Klines Go Vegan ad for Peta2

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Straylight Run
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Straylight Run is an indie rock band based in Baldwin, New York. The band has released two albums Straylight Run and The Needles the Space as well as three EPs Prepare to Be Wrong, About Time and Un Mas Dos, in 2010, the band announced that they would be going on indefinite hiatus, but might reunite in the future. Two of the members, John Nolan and Shaun Cooper, are currently in Taking Back Sunday, when he was still a member of Taking Back Sunday, John Nolan wrote several songs that he didnt feel would go well with the band. After their departure, John and Shaun Cooper recorded several demos with Taking Back Sunday drummer Mark OConnell, the band began to take its present form when drummer Will Noon was invited to join after his former band, Breaking Pangaea, broke up. Breaking Pangaeas former lead singer was Fred Mascherino, who later took Nolans place in Taking Back Sunday, shortly thereafter, Johns sister, Michelle DaRosa, joined Straylight Run. The band gained popularity after posting six demo songs for download on their official site. By September of that year, they were playing to crowds in various cities in the Northeastern United States. The bands name was taken from the section of William Gibsons cyberpunk science-fiction novel Neuromancer. Due to Johns and Shauns involvement in their previous band, they were bound by contract to release an album under Victory Records and they began to record their first album in April 2004 and released their self-titled debut album Straylight Run on October 12,2004 after a one-month postponement. The album sold over 11,000 copies in the first week, the album featured Nate Ruess, former lead singer of The Format and current frontman of the indie-pop group fun. on the song Its For the Best. In late 2005, the band toured with Simple Plan, on October 4,2005 the band released their second record in the form of the Prepare to Be Wrong EP. The CD comprised two old demos, a cover of Bob Dylans With God On Our Side and 3 new songs, the CD ended their contract with Victory Records. Plans for a live DVD were in the works but were shelved, on June 19,2007 the band released their second album, The Needles the Space, under Universal Records. On December 8,2007 the band was dropped from Universal Records, the band toured in support of Bayside in February and early March,2008. The band toured in support of The Used on the inaugural Get a Life Tour from March 31 through May 11,2008, on June 3,2008 Michelle DaRosa announced that she would be leaving Straylight Run to pursue a solo career. In her MySpace message, she left the open to rejoining the band at some future time. In late 2008, DaRosa formed the band Destry which also featureed Sam Means of the rock group The Format. On June 10,2008 the band entered the studio for pre-production on their next CD, a vinyl format is also available

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Armor for Sleep
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Armor for Sleep was an American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001 and disbanded in 2009. The final lineup consisted of lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Ben Jorgensen, lead guitarist PJ DeCicco, bassist Anthony DiIonno, the following year they signed to Sire Records/Warner Bros. and released their last album Smile for Them. They announced their disbandment in October 2009, during their recording career, the band were renowned for their blend of alternative rock to atmospheric emo and dream pop. Armor For Sleep was founded by Ben Jorgensen in 2001 in New Jersey, Nash Breen and Peter James PJ DeCicco later joined the band after leaving fellow New Jersey band Prevent Falls. Jorgensen stated the name of the band comes from his experiences of writing music. As he recalls, I guess when I started the band I was kind of, like, retreating in my room and I kind of couldnt really fall asleep, so I started playing music. I just thought of the name Armor for Sleep, because it was really, which was something I was procrastinating on. Ben would go on to record demos of songs that would later be re-recorded and released on their first album Dream to Make Believe and these demos would circulate through the internet and become very popular with fans for their raw sound. Armor For Sleep originally signed to Equal Vision Records, where they released their first two albums, Dream to Make Believe in 2003 and What to Do When You Are Dead in 2005. The band signed to Warner Brothers/Sire Records in 2006, explaining it was time for a change, a Machine Shop remix of their track Remember to Feel Real was featured on the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack in August 2006. The next year, the band debuted a new track entitled End of the World on the soundtrack for the 2007 film Transformers and this song would later appear on their next record, but with various changes, including the reduction in vocal effects and keyboards. Armor For Sleep released their third full-length album Smile for Them on October 30,2007, on August 20,2008, the band announced an extended play, entitled The Way Out Is Broken. On October 28,2009 it was announced that the band would be parting ways. Frontman Ben Jorgensen released a statement informing fans of the inevitable, after the band had been inactive, like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap we will strive to put right what once went wrong…and then just like him we will poof out of existence. But for good this time- we promise, on July 20th,2015, the band announced an 8 city tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of What To Do When You Are Dead. PJ DeCicco moved on to playing in Love Automatic with former Senses Fail bassist Mike Glita, the band is no longer active. Nash Breen was playing with New York Rivals, but now plays for the Cold Seas, Ben Jorgensen - vocals, rhythm guitar, lyricist, piano PJ DeCicco - lead guitar Anthony DiIonno - bass, backing vocals Nash Breen - drums, percussion Official Facebook Page

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Senses Fail
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Senses Fail is an American post-hardcore band that formed in River Vale, New Jersey in 2002. The band have seen many changes, the only founding member still in the band being lead singer James Buddy Nielsen. The lineup currently consists of Nielsen, guitar players Zack Roach and Matt Smith, bassist Gavin Caswell, Senses Fail began on October 17,2001 after Garrett Zablocki posted an advertisement on the Internet to recruit members for the band. The advertisement attracted attention from Buddy Nielsen, who began writing with Zablocki. Later Zablocki contacted Dave Miller to join the band who also brought along his friend, after a short time with another drummer the band came across Dan Trapp, who was only 14-years-old at the time. Before the band signed to Drive Thru Records, James Gill was kicked out of the due to irreconcilable differences. The name Senses Fail, lead singer James Buddy Nielsen explains, In Hinduism, they believe that being alive is hell, so, people go out and live in the middle of the woods and they dont eat and dont drink. They just meditate because theyve reached such a level where theyre not attached to love. And if you want to reach the highest level of being and see God, building a local fan base by playing any gig they could find from skate parks and clubs to churches, they soon entered the studio and started to record. Their first release, From the Depths of Dreams, was a six-track EP that was released on ECA Records on August 16,2002. It originally started as two three-song demo CDs, but was joined together to make one release by producer John Naclerio. The independent release did very well and caught the attention of record labels. They signed to Drive-Thru Records, and reissued their EP on April 29,2003 with two tracks, improved mixing and new cover art. The release saw much success, and sold copies to peak at No.144 on the Billboard chart. In support of the EP, Senses Fail toured with bands as Finch, The Used, Millencolin. Senses Fail started working on their album, Let It Enfold You in early 2004. During this time, lead singer and songwriter Buddy Nielsen was 20 years old and they worked with producer Steve Evetts on their new label Vagrant Records. The lyrics were derived from a variety of sources

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Saves the Day
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Saves the Day is an American emo band from Princeton, New Jersey, formed in 1994. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Chris Conley, guitarist Arun Bali, bassist Rodrigo Palma, after forming under the name Sefler in 1994, Saves the Day released their debut studio album, Cant Slow Down, in 1998. It was followed by Through Being Cool, which featured their first single, Stay What You Are was released in 2001, peaking at number 100 on the Billboard 200. It spawned two music videos on MTV2, for the singles At Your Funeral and Freakish, and has since sold 300,000 copies. After the success of Stay What You Are, Saves the Day signed to Dreamworks Records, the album peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Independent Albums chart. Their latest, self-titled LP was released in 2013, Saves the Day originally performed in the New Jersey area under the name Sefler as a four-piece band with Chris Conley on bass guitar and vocals. The band changed their name in late 1997, of the original lineup, only Conley remains today. The band has gone through numerous changes over the years and has only recorded two consecutive albums with the same lineup, with Conley as the only permanent fixture. The bands first proper release, Cant Slow Down, was recorded and released through Equal Vision Records in 1998 while the members were still in high school, using their own resources, Saves the Day released a five-song acoustic EP, Im Sorry Im Leaving, in early 1999. Later that year, they released their second full-length with Equal Vision, Through Being Cool, the band began drawing attention from some of the larger independent labels, eventually signing with Vagrant Records. In 2001, the band moving away from their roots with the release of Stay What You Are. The album had a poppier feel with more guitar work. The band gained exposure with a video for the song At Your Funeral. The band also released a video for Freakish in April 2002, shortly after the albums release, guitarist Ted Alexander left the band and Conley took over guitar duties. The album was original drummer Bryan Newmans last recording with the band. With the success of Stay What You Are, the signed with major label DreamWorks Records, who would co-release their next album with Vagrant. The 2003 release of In Reverie saw the band experiment with their sound. The drastic change in sound was alienating among fans, and the album received support from DreamWorks

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MewithoutYou
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MewithoutYou, stylized as mewithoutYou, is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band consists of vocalist Aaron Weiss, guitarists Michael Weiss and Brandon Beaver, bassist Greg Jehanian, the bands music is generally dominated by spoken-word vocals and free-ranging drums, bass, and guitar. The band was conceived as a side project. With the help of Ricky Mazzotta, Ray Taddeo, and his brother Mike, at first the band was a four piece, with Aaron Weiss on both bass and vocals. However, in only a few months Chris Kleinberg joined to play third guitar, the band released their first EP in 2001 and shortly thereafter signed to Tooth & Nail Records after a show at Cornerstone Festival the same year. Around this time Taddeo had moved on, and Daniel Pishock was recruited to be the first official, the Operation disbanded soon afterward, and mewithoutYous debut full-length album, Life, was released in 2002. The band garnered attention for their second release, 2004s Catch for Us the Foxes. In 2005, mewithoutYou won mtvUs Left Field award for most original artist for their song January 1979 and their third album, Brother, Sister, again produced by Wood, was released on September 26,2006. In late 2007, guitarist Christopher Kleinberg left the band, to pursue a degree in medicine, pete Syoum filled in for guitar in the fall of 2007, but later Kleinberg returned to play with the band on their 2008 Summer tour since school was not in session. Kleinberg also played shows on their Its All Crazy. Its Alright tour in June 2009, Aaron Weiss provides narration for the Forgive Durden album entitled, Razias Shadow, A Musical which was released October 28,2008. He also provides vocals for Norma Jeans Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste, as of September 2008 the band has finished recording the follow-up to Brother, Sister titled, Its All Crazy. The title of the album is taken from parable 518 in the book The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh by Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. In this he writes, Its all false, Its all a dream, Its all crazy, Its all over, Its all right, the latest album is a departure from Weiss trademark shouting and the bands rough grooves. The mile-a-minute rants, thick with lyrical angst, are traded for simpler melodies with lyrics about anthropomorphic food, similarly, the band has scaled back their edgier post-hardcore sound, at times trading riffs for chords and guitars for pianos and harp. Even a classical composer was called into their Fishtown, Philadelphia studio for various arrangements on several tracks, the album was produced by Dan Smith and Brian McTear and was mixed by Brad Wood. They toured in a 42-foot 1976 MC8 Charter bus that runs on vegetable oil, before July 2009 the side of the bus read Altus Bulldogs. The bus has since painted in a light beige and marked with paintings of flowers

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Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970

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RCA Music Group
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RCA Music Group was created by BMG in March 2004 shortly after the formation of Zomba Label Group. It became a part of the BMG Label Group along with Zomba, in 2008, BMG sold their half of the Sony BMG merger back to Sony, but retained the use of the BMG name. Thus, in early 2009, the BMG Label Group was rebranded to the RCA/JIVE Label Group, in mid-2011, Sony announced that they were again restructuring RCA/JIVE Label Group. Some artists moved under a restructured Epic Records which is now headed by L. A. Reid, Epic will focus on urban music while the RCA Music Group continued on its own. JIVE Records was moved under RCA Music Group, minus those artists who were moved to Epic. Some of JIVEs urban artists such as Usher moved to RCA, while other JIVE pop artists, including Britney Spears & P. nk, Peter Edge serves as CEO of the company. The company was expected to start releasing all of its recordings under RCA Records, Arista Records, J Records and JIVE Records have been shut down with all of their artists moving to RCA. In August 2011, RCA laid off 20 members of its staff, RCA Records Arista Records LaFace Records J Records JIVE Records Peter Edge, Chairman & CEO Tom Corson, President & COO RCA/JIVE Label Group Epic Records Columbia Records

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AbsolutePunk
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AbsolutePunk was a website, online community, and alternative music news source founded by Jason Tate. The primary musical genres of focus were emo and pop punk, the very next day on April 1, all of the domain names and social media accounts associated with AbsolutePunk were being redirected to Chorus. fm. Founded June 6,2000 by Jason Tate, the focused on music industry news. The site also allowed user interaction via a vBulletin Internet Forum system, users could register their own personalized account, create a profile, and comment on nearly every portion of the site. Special accounts were afforded to industry figures and band members denoting them as such, the website originally started as a Blink-182/MxPx fan site. In 2005, the site was drawing six million hits daily, by 2006, the website was noted for engaging teenagers, and was beginning to chip away at the dominance of MySpace, according to OMMA online media magazine. The social media network Buzznet purchased AbsolutePunk in May 2008, AbsolutePunks community included over 500,000 music fans, making it one of the largest alternative music zines on the Internet. The site was run by contributor-turned-moderators who worked for the site but were not paid. They added news posts, wrote reviews and conducted interviews all in their free time, aBSOLUTExclusives and recent album reviews were often displayed prominently at the top of the sites news feed, while other stories were simply listed in descending chronological order. The staff conducted frequent interviews with bands and often asked the AbsolutePunk community to contribute questions in advance. They also ran numerous contests via both an opt-in lottery system and through news items, with the latter usually awarding prizes to the users who replied the fastest while meeting certain criteria. One of AbsolutePunks main purposes was to music fans with one another through its extensive online forums. The forums featured over 318,500 registered members and they were divided into a number of different sections, split into categories such as entertainment, sports, politics, and education. Users were encouraged to contribute their own media to the site, as most of the site functioned on the same bulletin board system, forum activity would often spill out into album reviews and news stories as well. The website gained a following in the alternative music scene over the years, allowing it to sponsor various tours. In the August 2007 issue of Blender, owner Jason Tate was named #18 in their list of Top 25 Most Influential People in Online Music, on June 1,2005 vocalist and pianist Andrew McMahon of the bands Something Corporate and Jacks Mannequin was diagnosed with leukemia. AbsolutePunk raised approximately $16,400 for the Leukemia Research Foundation by selling over 6,000 orange gel bracelets online, the wristbands read I Will Fight in reference to a well-known song by Something Corporate

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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website

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Blender (magazine)
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Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as the ultimate guide to music and more. It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities and it compiled lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both best of and worst of lists. In each issue, there was a review of an artists entire discography, Blender was published by Dennis Publishing. It started publishing a print edition again in 1999 in its most recent form, Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital editorial formats, as well as the first forms of digital advertising. The first digital advertisers included Calvin Klein, Apple Computer, Stephen Colbert, Toyota, in June 2006, the Chicago Tribune named it one of the top ten English-language magazines, describing it as the cool kid at the school of rock magazines. Owner Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine March 26,2009, going to a format in a move that eliminated 30 jobs. Blenders final print issue was the April 2009 issue, subscribers to the magazine were sent issues of Maxim magazine to make up for the unsent Blender issues. The Indian edition of Blender was the titles first venture outside of the United States and it commenced publication with its May 2008 issue, which featured Mariah Carey on the cover. The magazine was targeted at educated male city dwellers aged between 18 and 34, the magazine was launched through Dennis Media Transasia India, a joint venture between Dennis Publishing and Media Transasia, which also publishes the Asian versions of Blender and Maxim. The joint venture was based in New Delhi with offices in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai

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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics

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Melodic (magazine)
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Melodic is an international daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on independent music, however, the range of musical genres covered extends to rock, pop, folk, jazz, heavy metal, electronic, and experimental music. The site, which was established in 1999, concentrates on new music, the site also publishes best-of lists as annual features detailing the best albums of each year. The website was created in Skogås, Sweden in 1999 with the name of Midwestern Skies and it was founded by the music industrialist Pär Winberg, which had been an A&R executive and had worked for EMI Music Sweden and Lionheart Music Group. He also worked with artists, including The Real Group. Melodic publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in different continents, in May 2002, Midwestern Skies moved to the domain Melodic. net. The following year, the site expanded to competitions, features, in 2006, several features began to be provided by the sites staff writers, including live reviews, interviews, exclusive MP3 streams, and year-end features. In 2011, Melodic presented readers choice awards in ten categories, swedish rock band The Pusher received three awards for their debut album The Art of Hit Music. Other winners were The Anix, Miss Behaviour, Nickelback, Coury Palermo, Sixx, in January 2012, Melodic announced a new chart which is based on readers vote. Charts are announced on Monday mornings and feature fifteen tracks, the website currently features the latest news, interviews, record reviews, live shows, as well as competitions. Melodic operates a simple 5-point rating system, starting at 1, each of these values is assigned a word, ranging from Terrible to Essential. As well as showing the score a reviewer has given to the album, should enough users have rated the album, a bar chart will also be shown indicating how many votes each rating has

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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors

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Sputnikmusic
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Sputnikmusic, or simply Sputnik, is a music website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites. Over time, the site has come to be established as a source, becoming a featured reviewer on Metacritic. As a general rule, the writers tend to focus on new releases, however. In June 2006, following claims made by the MPA about the illegality of music tabs, MXTabs was closed. At this time, Sputnikmusic became its own entity, with MusicianForums renamed as the SputnikMusic Forums. It was at point that the focus of Sputnik began to shift toward providing professional content, with a news page added. As part of this shift, several features have also sporadically been provided by the staff writers, including live reviews, interviews, exclusive MP3 streams. Currently on Sputnikmusic, four classes of reviewer exist that demarcate whether content should be considered professional or not, staff Writers are the writers who contribute the professional-standard content, which includes featured articles in addition to reviews. There are currently 25 staff reviewers, three of whom act as moderators and administrators for the site. Contributing Reviewers can contribute features, but are not eligible for inclusion by either Metacritic or Wikipedia, there are currently 23 contributing reviewers. Emeritus is a given to former staff writers who no longer contribute to the site. Reviews by these users are acknowledged as professional, users includes everybody who has not yet been promoted to any of the higher levels. Despite this, they can contribute new reviews, artists, and albums to the database, edit data already present. Sputnikmusic operates a simple 5-point rating system, starting at 1, as a guide to new reviewers, each of these values is assigned a word, ranging from Awful to Classic. However, certain albums have a rating system, where users cannot rate the album lower than a 2.0. This is the case with Kendrick Lamars To Pimp a Butterfly, the staff of Sputnik have not commented on this, despite being asked. As well as showing the score a reviewer has given to the album, a page will also show the scores given by other individual reviewers. A bar chart will also show how many votes each rating has once it has received at least two and a review

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Irony
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Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case. Irony may be divided into such as verbal, dramatic. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used for emphasis in the assertion of a truth, other forms, as identified by historian Connop Thirlwall, include dialectic and practical irony. Also, Eric Partridge, in Usage and Abusage, writes that Irony consists in stating the contrary of what is meant, the use of irony may require the concept of a double audience. The term is used as a synonym for incongruous and applied to every trivial oddity in situations where there is no double audience. The American Heritage Dictionarys secondary meaning for irony, incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs and this sense, however, is not synonymous with incongruous but merely a definition of dramatic or situational irony. It is often included in definitions of irony not only that incongruity is present, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, The term irony has its roots in the Greek comic character Eiron, a clever underdog who by his wit repeatedly triumphs over the boastful character Alazon. The Socratic irony of the Platonic dialogues derives from this comic origin. e, the word came into English as a figure of speech in the 16th century as similar to the French ironie. It derives from the Latin ironia and ultimately from the Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation, Romantic irony, A self-aware and self-critical form of fiction. Cosmic irony, A contrast between the absolute and the relative, the general and the individual, which Hegel expressed by the phrase, when the audience knows that the character will die before morning. It is most often used when the author causes a character to speak or act erroneously, in tragic irony, the audience knows the character is making a mistake, even as the character is making it. Verbal irony is distinguished from situational irony and dramatic irony in that it is produced intentionally by speakers, for instance, if a man exclaims, Im not upset. But reveals an upset emotional state through his voice while truly trying to claim hes not upset, but if the same speaker said the same words and intended to communicate that he was upset by claiming he was not, the utterance would be verbal irony. This distinction illustrates an important aspect of verbal irony—speakers communicate implied propositions that are contradictory to the propositions contained in the words themselves. Were left in no doubt as to whos ambitious and whos honourable, the literal truth of whats written clashes with the perceived truth of whats meant to revealing effect, which is irony in a nutshell. Ironic similes are a form of verbal irony where a speaker intends to communicate the opposite of what they mean, a fair amount of confusion has surrounded the issue of the relationship between verbal irony and sarcasm. Fowlers A Dictionary of Modern English Usage states, Sarcasm does not necessarily involve irony and irony has often no touch of sarcasm and this suggests that the two concepts are linked but may be considered separately. 2 a, a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, the psychologist Martin, in The Psychology of Humour, is quite clear that irony is where the literal meaning is opposite to the intended and sarcasm is aggressive humor that pokes fun

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2000s in fashion
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2000s fashion is often described as being a global mash up, where trends saw the fusion of previous styles, global and ethnic clothing, as well as the fashions of numerous music-based subcultures. Hip-hop fashion generally was the most popular among people of both sexes, followed by the retro inspired indie look later in the decade. Those 25 years of age and older adopted a casual style which was popular throughout the decade. Globalization also influenced the decades clothing trends, with the incorporation of Middle Eastern, furthermore, eco-friendly and ethical clothing, such as recycled fashions and fake fur, were prominent in the decade. In the early 2000s, many mid and late 1990s fashions remained fashionable around the globe, although the 2000s did not have one particular style, they revived clothes primarily from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The leading fashion designers between 2000–09 included the late Alexander McQueen, Vera Wang, Christian Louboutin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, when the 2000s kicked off, the fashion was profoundly influenced by technology. From late 1997 until late 2001, there was a futuristic approach to fashion, with metallics, shiny blacks, heavy use of gray, straps. The apparel was made to be as dark, reflective, technological, when the original iPod was introduced in 2001, the earbuds, as well as the gadget itself, became somewhat of an accessory for early adopters. Perhaps in reaction to the streamlined, futuristic, outer space-themed Y2K styles of the year 2000, pants became lower waisted and significantly more flared than they were previously, and often featured elaborate embroidery rather than the utilitarian, no-frills style of before. In the UK, it was popular for women to wear skirts over trousers, floral print shift dresses, although the 1980s fashion revival was not in full swing until 2002, the first movement had started in the late 1990s and continued into the early 2000s. This first wave focused on the early 1980s. Such trends that emerged during this period included miniskirts, ripped distressed jeans, denim jackets, tracksuits, trenchcoats, puffy jackets. These remained popular until about 2008 when the revival of late 1980s fashions occurred. Overall, European and American women and girls wore low-top sneakers, such as Skechers, Heelys, Adidas shoes, Reebok shoes and it items were very popular in the 2000s, particularly the early and middle years. Crocs were a fad for both sexes in the summer of 2006, despite their kitsch connotations, and in 2006 the minidress made a comeback with the hemlines being unusually short. Introduced in 2005, skinny jeans became popular in 2006, high heeled shoes were replaced with ballet flats, Sperry Top-Siders, Converse Chucks, and the Keds popularized by Mischa Barton and later Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift. From 2006 until the end of the decade, more elaborate military inspired clothing became a trend in Britain. Long, baggy empire line shirts were taken in at the bustline, fur coats made a comeback, although many women used fish fur due to real furs association with animal cruelty

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BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed is an American internet media company based in New York City. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 as a lab, focusing on tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post, started as a co-founder, the company has grown into a global media and technology company providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, DIY, animals and business. In late 2011, Ben Smith of Politico was hired as editor-in-chief to expand the site into serious journalism, long-form journalism, the website has met criticism over accusations of plagiarism. While working at the Huffington Post, Peretti started BuzzFeed as a project, in 2006. In the beginning, BuzzFeed employed no writers or editors, just an algorithm to cull stories from around the web that were showing stirrings of virality, perettis first hire was Peggy Wang, whom hed taught as a student at a private high school in New Orleans. The site initially launched an instant messaging client, BuzzBot, which messaged users a link to popular content, the messages were sent based on algorithms which examined the links that were being quickly disseminated, scouring through the feeds of hundreds of blogs that were aggregating them. Later, the site began spotlighting the most popular links that BuzzBot found, Peretti hired curators to help describe the content that was popular around the web. In 2011, Peretti hired Politicos Ben Smith, who earlier had achieved attention as a political blogger. In August 2014, BuzzFeed raised $50 million from the capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The site was valued at around $850 million by Andreessen Horowitz. BuzzFeed generates its revenue through native advertising that matches its own editorial content. Buzzfeed also uses its familiarity with media to target conventional advertising through other channels. In December 2014, growth equity firm General Atlantic acquired $50M in secondary stock of the company, in August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $200 million equity investment in Buzzfeed. In October 2016, BuzzFeed raised $200 million from Comcast’s TV and movie arm NBCUniversal, BuzzFeeds first acquisition was in 2012 when the company purchased Kingfish Labs, a startup founded by Rob Fishman, initially focused on optimizing Facebook ads. On October 28,2014, BuzzFeed announced its next acquisition, the Torando team was to become BuzzFeeds first data engineering team. BuzzFeed produces daily content, in which the work of staff reporters, contributors, syndicated cartoon artists, popular formats on the website include lists, videos, and quizzes. In that year, BuzzFeed deleted over 4000 early posts, apparently because, as passed, they looked stupider and stupider

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Slide guitar
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Slide guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. Instead of altering the pitch of the strings in the manner, an object called a slide is placed upon the string to vary its vibrating length. This slide can then be moved along the string without lifting, creating smooth transitions in pitch and allowing wide, Slide guitar is most often played, With the guitar in the normal position, using a slide on one of the fingers of the left hand. This same technique is used to play steel guitar and the Dobro resonator guitar used in Bluegrass music. The technique of using a slide on a string has been traced to one-stringed African instruments similar to a Diddley bow, the technique was made popular by African American blues artists. The first musician recorded using the style was Sylvester Weaver, who recorded two solo pieces Guitar Blues and Guitar Rag in 1923, Blues legend Muddy Waters was also very influential, particularly in developing the electric Chicago blues slide guitar from the acoustic Mississippi Delta slide guitar. Texas blues musician Johnny Winter developed his style through years of touring with Waters. Slide player Roy Rogers honed his skills by touring with blues artist John Lee Hooker. John Lees cousin Earl Hooker may have been the first to use wah-wah, the sound has since become commonplace in country and Hawaiian music. The Rolling Stones featured a guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon/Paul McCartney song I Wanna Be Your Man. Guitarist Brian Jones played slide in a very blues-oriented style, Jones was also one of the first English guitarists to play slide and during the bands early years, he was considered one of the best slide guitarists in the music world. His successors Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood also displayed their own slide guitar skills while with the band, the album Let It Bleed features Keith Richards on slide guitar for the majority of the album, since the band were in-between guitarists during the making of the album. Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger has also played guitar on occasion. Canned Heats Alan Wilson also helped bring slide guitar to music in the late 1960s. George Harrison experimented with slide guitar during the half of The Beatles career, first using the technique on an early outtake recording of Strawberry Fields Forever. The 1965 songs Drive My Car, and Run For Your Life have slide guitar, Harrison later used slide extensively in his solo career, on songs such as My Sweet Lord, Give Me Love, This Is Love, and Cheer Down. He played slide in the Traveling Wilburys as well as on The Beatles 1995 and 1996 reunion singles Free as a Bird, slides may be used on any guitar, but slides generally and steels in particular are often used on instruments specifically made to play in this manner. Often, the strings are raised a little higher off the fingerboard than they would be for conventional guitar playing—especially if the player isnt going to use the fingers for fretting

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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network

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Baseball: An Album by Sayanything
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Baseball, An Album By Say Anything is the debut album from the American band Say Anything. At the time of the release, the band was known as Sayanything. During the time of recording in 2001, the band consisted of Max Bemis on vocals, guitar, and keyboard, Coby Linder on drums, and Michael Levin on bass. Although the album was recorded in 2001, most copies were not sold until May 2003 when 200 copies were pressed, thus, some sources cite the albums release year as 2003. The album has never attained any commercial success, though it has remained a consistent cult favorite, however, Say Anything frontman Max Bemis has all but disowned the recording, until 2009 refusing to play any of its songs live. At an acoustic show on May 11,2008 at the Chain Reaction, after a fan requested he play Into the Night, however, today is not that day. Since the album had a pressing, no commercial success and the songs are rarely played live, many fans. Because of this, many people credit the bands second album. Is A Real Boy as the bands debut album. However. Is A Real Boy is still in fact their major label debut. On July 5,2009, Max Bemis announced via Twitter that he was Feeling thankful towards say anything fans so I played a song from baseball for the first time in 7 yrs, the video was an acoustic version of Colorblind. On their fall 2010 tour with Motion City Soundtrack and Saves the Day, Say Anything began playing Colorblind again, July 2011, Max stated that Say Anything has signed with Equal Vision Records and that they had acquired the rights to the bands present, and past releases. Max stated this includes a move to potentially reissue Baseball,22,2013, Equal Vision released the three-disc set All My Friends Are Enemies, Early Rarities. The first disc is a version of Baseball

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Say Anything (album)
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Say Anything frontman Max Bemis posted a blog entry on the bands official site on July 30 announcing its release, and said the album literally defines everything about the band weve built so far. Max Bemis confirmed through Twitter, on June 21, that the first single from the album will be Hate Everyone, the single was released on August 25. The song impacted radio on September 15, the second single from the album was Do Better. On September 15,2009 the song Property from the album was made available to fans who signed up for the Say Anything official mailing list on the bands official website. The complete album was uploaded to the bands Myspace page on October 29,2009, in an online chat with fans on March 14,2008, Max Bemis stated that the band has plans to record a new record called This Is Forever. He said it will be about God and how we relate to him, absolutePunk reported on August 1,2008, that J Records picked up the option for Say Anythings next release. On November 10, Bemis announced that the focus of the album changed. He noted that the album, which will be released in 2009 and he then explained that the new album would be more concise and would be a bit more original, I want to say, and sort of pop out like. Is a Real Boy did. He also explained that this CD has both the catchiest and most mature songs theyve ever recorded and called it a step forward and it should be out this fall. This record is kind of a new start, or at least a new phase in the Say Anything story, do Better debuted on April 5,2010 at The Warfield in San Francisco. Say Anything was given a metascore of 76 on aggregrator Metacritic, a review from Sputnikmusic gave the album a 4. 5/5 stars stating, Pretty much, Say Anything offers more for fans and opens up the Say Anything sound for new ‘users’ to come and enjoy. The album debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200, Say Anythings highest charting record to date, all lyrics written by Max Bemis, all music composed by Say Anything. Double Vinyl Gatefold LP 3-D Poster w/ Glasses 13 Track CD/MP3 Download 9 Track Demo CD T-Shirt & Badge Hate Everyone Lyrics Sheet Guitar Pick Card Iron-On Decal

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Anarchy, My Dear
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Anarchy, My Dear is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Say Anything. It was released on March 13,2012 through Equal Vision Records and it is their last album with drummer Coby Linder, who left the band in December 2012. On July 13,2011 Max Bemis announced that Say Anything had been signed to Equal Vision Records and they recorded Anarchy, My Dear from August 2011 to the end of September 2011 with. Is a Real Boy producer, Tim OHeir. Coincidentally, it happens to be the first record we’ve made in years where we had total freedom to explore our ‘edgier’ side. We thought we could best represent what the means by using the symbolism of a burning flag stitched onto an actual flag. The image represents a championing of the ’cause’ of struggling against the rules, the track was officially released the following day to digital music retailers. On January 10,2012 the albums track listing was revealed, on February 4,2012 the band released the second single from the album entitled Say Anything. The song impacted radio on February 28,2012, overbiter impacted radio on September 11,2012

Wooden resonator guitar played with a steel, angled to form a chord unavailable from straight open tuning.

A collection of various guitar slides. On the left is a "steel" used in lap playing. The next two are Coricidin medicine bottles from the late 1960s; followed by a polycarbonate tube and three metal tubes